On 3/27/2020 5:29 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 16:48 +0100, Michal Prívozník wrote: >> On 27. 3. 2020 14:57, john doe wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to set the hostname when installing a guest, with the below >>> command the hostname is not set to 'try06' in the guest: >>> >>> virt-install --name=try06 --graphic none --pxe --network bridge=virbr0 >> >> This is the name of the guest registered in libvirt. I don't think that >> virt-install has wired up setting hostname, but it looks like it can do >> it. I mean, use --name for both libvirt name and guest hostname. > > Note that, while virt-install might be modified to automatically set > the hostname in cases where it has full control of the installation > process (--unattended), in the general case the user is performing > the installation steps themselves in the context of the guest and > virt-install has no way of knowing, or influencing, what happens > there. > No argument there, in my case I'm doing a full unattended installation! :) Thanks for the (--unattended) hint, will look into that and thanks to Michal Prívozník for 'libvirt-nss plugin'. -- John Doe
